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  = Incubator PMC report for April 2017 =
  
  === Timeline ===
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  Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
  
-   1.
-   2.
-   3.
+   1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
+   2. Continue to execute and manage the project according to governance model of the "Apache Way”.
+   3. Continue to build community.
  
- Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
+ Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
- aware of?
  
+  1. The next release v1.11 will be the 5th as an incubating project.  We believe this release will meet all requirements for a clean ASF release, based on listening to guidance from the IPMC over the previous releases.  After that, the community would ideally like to move towards top level status.
+  2.  The licensing issues have been resolved.  Should anyone want to review, we have summarized the issue and resolution with relevant links on the MADlib wiki at
+ https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/ASF+Licensing+Guidance
  
- 
- How has the community developed since the last report?
- 
- 
- 
- How has the project developed since the last report?
+ How has the community developed since the last report?
  
+   1. Some related events in Q1 2017: 
+       * Feb 4, 2017 - Presentation at FOSDEM’17 Graph devroom.  Topic:  Graph Analytics on Massively Parallel Processing Databases (Frank McQuillan)
+ 	* Feb 2, 2017 - Greenplum meetup in SF.  Topic:  Machine Learning and Cyber Security with Greenplum and Apache MADlib (Anirudh Kondaveeti, Frank McQuillan)
+ 	* Mar 23, 2017 - MADlib community call.  Topic:  New Features in Apache MADlib 1.10 (Frank McQuillan)
+   2. See material technical conversations on user/dev mailing lists and in the appropriate JIRAs and pull requests.
  
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
- How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- Please feel free to add your own commentary.
  
+   1. Build infra set up on Apache infra https://builds.apache.org/job/madlib-master-build/
+   1. Active work in progress for 5th ASF release MADlib v1.11 scheduled for Apr 2017.  Features include: PageRank, connected components, stratified sampling, improvements to decision tree & random forest, array & sparse vector output for pivot
+   2. Mailing list activity in Q1 to date:  274 postings to dev, 111 postings to user.
+ 
+ How would you assess the podling's maturity?
+ Please feel free to add your own commentary.
+ 
    [ ] Initial setup
    [ ] Working towards first release
    [ ] Community building
-   [ ] Nearing graduation
+   [X] Nearing graduation
    [ ] Other:
  
  Date of last release:
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+   MADlib v1.10 on 3/10/17.
  
- When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
+ When were the last committers or PMC members elected:
  
+   Orhan Kislal on 9/7/16 and Nandish Jayaram on 9/7/16.
  
  
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